Maya Hayuk

Region: Northeast

City / State: Brooklyn, NY

These large-scale paintings are not sketched out in advance;
they are improvised reactions to and collaborations with the
environments they occupy. They are built up in layers of loose,
wet, deliberate, rapid, rigid, and blown-out gestures. While this
process could go on forever, time and weather usually dictate
the moment of completion. I rely on the imperfection of my arm’s
reach and trust in my own physicality, as well as in the capability
of whatever cherry-picker or scaffold I am standing on. Even
when I have the luxury of working with an assistant, the paint is
applied almost entirely by me—this is important to me. My work
is a physical endurance performance and a kind of meditation.
These paintings live in public spaces that become personal for
those who make selfies with them; they do not last forever, and
they make me really, really happy.

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